How good are you with words?

[Princess12]

(I pulled this off Myspace, but I thought it was pretty neat)

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

[slowrolla97]

I think I might be too stupid for this

[sararose]

Startling
starting
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
I

I remember that from grade school :lmao:

[fight club]

Startling
starting
staring
string
sting
sing
sin
in
I

[Tasuki_Civic]

intresting

[fight club]

dammit beat me too it :D

[~The_Duke~]

I always have sucked at those things...then again I barely was able to pass language arts all the way through school...

[Princess12]

Good job guys! I'm impressed!

[mp5o]

DAMN!!! I woulda never figured that out... :(

[~The_Duke~]

DAMN!!! I woulda never figured that out... :(

It is ok, I would have never figured it out either...

[SixSquared]

I would have but I knew I would have to think about it... I knew the single letter was either A or I... would have had to just build it from there

[RandomGuy]

HATCHLING
HATCHING
HACHING
ACHING
CHING
CHIN
CHI
HI
I

BLAHAHAHH PWND

[Stormhammer]

^^^ LOL WTF OLO